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Farouk Araie is a Mail & Guardian reader from Actonville in Gauteng

Flooding in KwaZulu-Natal. File photo Rajesh Jantilala/AFP/Getty
2018 WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION REPORT

Hurtling towards climatic Armageddon

Big industries and governments are not acting fast enough to prevent climate change, with disastrous consequences

  • Farouk Araie
3 min read
A man watches a television report showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on October 19, 2021, after the South’s military said a North Korean weapons test was believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)
DISARMAMENT

Even the mind of Dante could not imagine the inferno a nuclear war will plunge us into

The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trial and errors, its success and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned

  • Farouk Araie
3 min read
Smoke rises from a Makro building set on fire overnight in Umhlanga, north of Durban, on July 13, 2021 as several shops, businesses and infrastructure were damaged in the city, following four nights of continued violence and looting. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)
ZUMAUNREST

Intelligence failure on co-ordinated insurrection will cost South Africa billions

The state’s inability to foresee or forestall this week’s frightening and destructive series of events defies explanation

  • Farouk Araie
2 min read
The Project 955A (Borei A) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Knyaz Oleg sets off on its first sea trial in the White Sea. Oleg Kuleshov/TASS (Photo by Oleg KuleshovTASS via Getty Images)
ARMS RACE

Nuclear powers must stop playing nuclear chess and atomic roulette

The United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea are increasing their arsenals

  • Farouk Araie
3 min read